James Lockhart To Joseph Grimes Deed 5 October 1785
(Transcribed by Joan S Dunn)


Deed Book 1 A Page 345, 346, & 347

James Lockhart To Joseph Grimes

Article etc.

	This indenture made this fifty day of October in the ninth year of American 
Independence & in the year of our Lord 1785.  Between James Lockhart in behalf or his 
sons Lillington & James Lockhart minors of the State of No. Carolina & County of Duplin 
Gent. of the one part & Joseph Grimes Carpenter & millright of the other part.  
Witnesseth that he the said James Lockhart for and in consideration of the reservations 
& covenants herein after expressed to be ovserve & kept by the siad Joseph Grimes his 
heirs or hath let & to farm let unto the said Joseph Grimes his heirs & assigns for & 
during the term of seven years to commence from the day of finishing and setting to work 
a certain saw mill now intended to be built by him the said James Lockhart & Joseph Grimes 
at a place known by the name of Muddy Creek in the said County of Duplin full previledge 
of building & finishing a saw mill to work with two saws, as also to find a sufficent 
quanity of tumber for the use of the mill to saw or to erect any necessary building for 
the purpose of carrying on the said business of sawing for & during the said term & keeping 
& repairing the same, he the said Joseph Grimes paying one half of the expenses of building 
& keeping in good repair the said mill & her appendages for the time aforesaid for which the 
said Joseph Grimes shall be entitled to receive one half of the neat profits that shall 
arise from said Mill, the expense of attending the same to be equally divided between the 
said parties, & if it shall be concieved that it be most profitable or any difference shall 
arise between the said parties & they separate their hands that attends the said mill each 
shall take a separate loss & cast lots for preference if any is concieved & in case either 
of the said parties shall be in arrear to the other when the said mill is finished it shall 
be paid out of the first neat profit that arises from the said mill, & in case of disputes 
about the expence of building or repairing the said mill, it shall be adjusted by arbutration 
in differently chsen by the said parties, and the said James Lockhart doth farther agree that 
the said Joseph Grimes shall have full liberty of pasturage for oxen or other team necessary 
for carrying on the said business, he the said Joseph Grimes paying his proportion of the 
expence of fencing or otherwise enclosing the said pasture and it is farther agreed between 
the said parties that the saws and irons shall be vallued at the end of the said term, one 
half of which shall be paid to the said Joseph Grimes or his assigns, & the said Joseph 
Grimes doth farther engage to set a grist mill to woork as soon as may be the said James 
Lockhart finding the stones & irons for which he shall be intitled to receive out of the 
tole that may be obtained from said mill a suficient quantity of corn to bread the hands 
that he shall employ in attending the said saw mill, any other expence attending the said 
grist mill to be regulated in the same manner as is mentioned for the saw mill & the said 
James Lockhart doth for himself his heirs & assigns further promise & engage to keep the 
said Joseph Grimes his heirs & asigns in the quiet possession of the aforesaid premises & 
every part thereof free from the least let molestation or interuption of him the said James 
Lockhart his heirs or assigns or any other person or persons whatsoever & for the true 
performance of all & singular the aforesaid covenants & agreements, the parties bind 
themselves to each other in the sum of one thousand pounds specie to be paid by the party 
failing, to the part observant.  In testimony whereof the said parties have hereunto set 
their hands & seals the day & year first written.
				James Lockhart for Lillington & James Lockhart junr.
				Joseph Grimes

 Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us
				James Gillespie
				William McCanne

State of No. Carolina Duplin County Jany. Term 1787.
Then was the within deed proved in open Court by the oath of James Gillespie & ordered 
to be registered.
Test		W. Dickson, C. C.





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